Ballerina: A Modern Programming Language Focused on Integration

[The talk is cancelled]
Speaker: Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana
Founder, Chairman and Chief Architect of WSO2
Title: "Ballerina: A Modern Programming Language Focused on
Integration"
Date: Thursday, 13 December 2018
Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Venue: Lecture Theater F (near lifts 25/26), HKUST
Abstract:
Ballerina is a concurrent, transactional, statically typed programming
language. It is a general purpose programming language that has been
designed to support integration. It combines fundamental concepts and
tools of distributed systems with direct support for network services,
distributed transactions, reliable messaging, stream processing, security
and workflows. It is intended for commercial adoption and provides
familiarity for users of Java, C# and JavaScript. This talk will discuss
the core principles behind Ballerina including the semantics of combining
aspects of networking, security, transactions, concurrency and events
within a single architecture.
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Biography:
Sanjiva Weerawarana is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Architect of WSO2,
where he leads the design, architecture and development of Ballerina.
After starting WSO2 in 2005 and as its CEO for 12 years, Sanjiva lead the
creation of a complete set of middleware products before deciding to throw
them all away and start again with a programming language approach. Prior
to starting WSO2, he was at IBM Research where he led the development of
Web services standards and technologies. He's a long time open source
developer and advocate and is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation,
an Emeritus Board Member of the Open Source Initiative and Founder and
Chief Scientist of the Lanka Software Foundation. He also volunteers in
the Sri Lanka Army where he serves as the IT advisor. He received a Ph.D.
in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1994.